Saturday, March 5, 2011

Lucky Bamboo Plant - Ink and Wash

Needing to do something in color for a change, I grabbed my Tombow Marker Pens and sketched this bamboo plant. It's not a true bamboo but instead in the Dracaena family. Can be grown in a dish with pebbles and water or soil provided the soil is never allowed to dry out. These plants do very well in the home or office in low to indirect light.

The sketch was done initially using the green marker. Then I took a waterbrush to make the ink bleed out. Once that was dry, I went over with the yellow in areas and a bit of lost and found lines with the black. I ran the waterbrush over areas to once again cause the ink to bleed. While still wet, I took the Bt Sienna and Redwood (brown) markers and emphasized a few areas. Once completely dry, I used the black and just touched up a few areas for definition.

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Art hobbyist / sketcher / watercolorist who loves sharing with the hopes it might encourage others in their journey with sketching and painting.
Started out 30 plus years ago painting in acrylic on wood, glass, and metal surfaces until I was introduced to watercolor in 1991. A medium I fell in love with immediately.
Over the past few years, I have been drawn into Pen and Ink as well as the Art of Journaling or keeping an Artist's Journal which is my new love!
Expanding my horizons a bit, I've been playing with digital sketching as well.